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Articles tagged subscriptions (124)

Sophie CulpepperSeptember 14, 2023

Want to boost local news subscriptions? Giving your readers a say in story ideas can help

“By providing a service that answers questions posed by audience members, audiences are more likely to reciprocate through subscriptions.”

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Sophie CulpepperJune 8, 2023

The Star Tribune is offering high school grads across Minnesota free one-year digital subscriptions

The Tribune set 200 graduating seniors as an “original modest benchmark” for sign-ups and has already surpassed 250.

The New York Times hits 10 million digital subscriptions, three years ahead of its goal

Joshua BentonNovember 23, 2021

A rose is a rose is a rose, but please, please make it clear to your readers what a “subscriber” is

Do you mean “people who pay a news company hundreds of dollars a year”? Or “email addresses we have in a spreadsheet somewhere”?

Joshua BentonJune 3, 2021

Is Twitter Blue a good enough product to earn your $3 a month?

There’s one feature that could be very useful for journalists and other Twitter packrats, but otherwise, it’s kinda meh. (And no, that’s not a real edit button.)

Joshua BentonNovember 18, 2020

Apple is reducing the cut it takes from most news publishers’ subscriptions

Instead of taking 30% of new subscribers’ payments, it’ll take 15%. The money’s welcome, but it’s also a reminder of how little control publishers have over the terms they get from tech giants.

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